The third competition day of the 2022
ECA Canoe Sprint European Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, brought the first
medal races. Ten finals in the 1000 metres events were held today and athletes
from Hungary, Georgia, Austria, Italy, Germany and Ukraine won gold medals.
Georgian canoeist Aleksandre
Tsivtsivadze managed to defend his Junior European Champion title from the 2021
Junior and U23 European Championships which was held in Poznan. It was a very
tight men’s junior C1 1000 metres final. Kacper Sieradzan from Poland who won
silver medal was only 0.090 seconds behind the Georgian paddler, while Daniel
Grijalba from Spain won bronze medal and was only 0.383 seconds behind.
The win in men’s junior K1 1000m
final stayed in Hungarian hands. It was Hunor Hidvegi who managed to repeat the
success of Levente Kurucz from 2021. Hidvegi crossed the finish line1.414
seconds faster than Marcos Caballero from Spain, andAchille Spadacini from
Italy won bronze medal.
Hungary celebrated gold medal also
thanks to Reka Nemes who was unbeatable in women’s junior K1 1000 meters final.
Slovak kayaker Bianka Sidova finished second and Estonian Elizaveta Fedorova
was third in this final. Gergely Lugosi and David Uhrin won third gold medal of
the day for Hungary. They were the best in men’s junior C2 1000m final,
finishing the race ahead of Polish duo Eryk Wilga – Piotr Kujawa and Romanian
crw Adrian Stepan – Andrei Costache.
Equally impressive was Italian gold
medal score. They also won three gold medals. Gabriele Casadei was the best in
men’s C1 U23 1000 metres final.Robert Lagdins from Latvia was second and Jiri
Minarik from Czech Republic third. Both men’s K2 1000 metres finals also
concluded according to Italian plans. Federico Zanutta – Luca Micott became
Junior European Champions and Giovanni Penato – Luca Meneguolo were crowned
Champion in the U23 category. Botond Szakacs – Peter Samu (HUN) and Lukaš
Hrabek – Jakub Niebauer (CZE) were second and third respectively in men’s
junior K2 1000m final. Radoslav Stefanov and Veselin Valchov from Bulgaria won
silver and George Tenta – Dariusz Zharia from Romania bronze medal in MK2 U23
1000m final.
Austrian Timon Maurer from Austria
was the winner of men’s K1 U23 1000 metres final, Jakob Kurschat from Germany
was second and Alex Graner from Spain third. Graneri was the 2021 Junior
European Champion in the K1 1000 metres event.
Enja Roesseling (GER) was crowned
European Champion in women’s U23 1000 metres final. Olga Bako (HUN) and Adela
Hazova (CZE) joined her on the winner’s podium. In the last A final of the day-
men’s U23 C2 1000 metres final – Ukrainian duo Artem Chetvertak – Pavlo Borsuk
won gold medal, ahead of Adrian Klos – Gracjan Michalak (POL) and Pablo Crespo
– Jaime Duro (ESP).
On Sunday, the 2022 ECA Junior and
U23 Canoe Sprint European Championships concludes with 500 and 200 metres
finals.
RESULTS: https://timetable.europecanoeevents.com/index.php?gmt=2&gmt2=-120
LIVESTREAM: https://www.youtube.com/CanoeEurope
WEBSITE: https://kajaksrbija.rs/2022eca
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